README.md

In aftonsteps/croptimizer: Stardew Valley Croptimizer

croptimizer

The goal of croptimizer is to optimize the crops planted in Stardew Valley! It optimizes crops, therefore – a croptimizer. 😬

Installation

This package is in process, and as such it is not stable and may change frequently. However, if you would like to install it, then do so from this repo, e.g. using devtools or any alternative package that offers an install_github() function.

devtools::install_github(repo = "aftonsteps/croptimizer", ref = "main")

Overview

The goal of this project is to allow optimization of your Stardew Valley crop choices. Users should be able to provide information such as number of squares available, season, and day of season, and receive the optimal crops to choose for these squares. Optimization will select crops that have sufficient time to grow before season end and then choose among these those which yield the most predicted gold.

The loose plan for building this croptimizer is to handle it in a few phases:

• Initial phase: Optimize for most profitable crop in terms of gold per day, which is (expected value of crop yield - initial cost of seeds) / number of days required for growing. This will optionally limit results to those which are possible in the time remaining (i.e. only crops which have enough time to mature before the end of the season). This should also take into account the potential bonuses due to probability of quality crop, probability of multiple harvest, and increases due to level and/or agriculturalist profession.
• Later features: Optimizing for additional parameters such as allowing arbitrary target date and not just end-of-season, accounting for free items such as foraged and dropped seeds which have an upfront cost of 0 gold, accounting for soil attributes such as fertilizer.
• “Stretch-goal” features: Optimizing for crop arrangement as well, which will take into account the number of soil squares available. This will allow optimization for giant crop probabilities and will prevent impossible arrangements such as planting all raised crops, which would be accessible only at the perimeter.

aftonsteps/croptimizer documentation built on Jan. 28, 2021, 12:50 p.m.